Creative and healthy: the daily challenge of making lunch boxes; see tips and ideas

Mother’s advice: find out the good tips to speed up your day when you prepare lunch boxes for children with taste, health and no frills!

Undoubtedly, every day we must have that dose of creativity mixed with the request to offer a healthy snack to our children, far from the industrialized ones, since it weighs our daily sense of guilt. Snack all day? No, don’t even think about it. But then? I’ll share some mom tips that will make your day easier.

Tip 1- Start by involving the child in the process

Play the supermarket game: ask the child to make a list of things to “buy” with you, whatever he likes best, and try to push the healthy side of this game, putting the fruits he likes for example. Then you will have your foundation to start thinking.

Tip 2: Create a weekly menu

Take all the preferences of the child and buy and organize the menu of the week, taking into account everything, including the weather. I, for example, go to the supermarket every Sunday to offer fresher foods and avoid buying too many things and they end up spoiling, the weather changes or the child ends up losing his appetite.

Tip 3 – Smart substitutions

Example: the child chose that famous strawberry flavored petit suisse cream from the list. How about whipping fruit with natural yogurt to form a cream? Or use natural yogurt (choose the one without additives, preservatives or sugar) and chop the strawberry well and sweeten it with honey (only for children over 2 years old, consult your pediatrician before adding the product to your child’s diet.) and mix in a jar, and to attract the baby, how about a colored candy on top? A little, huh.

Tip 4 – Offer a little of each type of food

Don’t send a packed lunch with snacks only or sweets only. Play with different types and flavors and offer good variety. If you order a sandwich, offer cherry tomatoes or corn in a buttered pot to go with it. For dessert: for dessert a chopped fruit or a blunt toothpick with strawberry and grapes forming a skewer.

Tip 5 – Assembling the packed lunch

Offer an attractive “combo”, as if it were a mini meal. Think of a main dish, a savory side dish, and a dessert. Example: 2 sandwiches with tuna pate or homemade cold cuts, 1 cheese muffin and 1 fruit salad.

Tip 6 – Have a good packed lunch

To maintain the food safety of the child, it is important to invest in a packed lunch that has good thermal protection, in addition to being good for health, the little ones tend to refuse the meal if it is at an unfavorable temperature or even “wilted”. In addition to eating with your eyes, right? Who refuses a fresh meal? Your baby’s tendency to eat more will be much greater. Remembering that you can find models of various prices and a packed lunch can last 1 year or more if you take good care of it.

Now let’s get to the practice! Check out some snack ideas and build your menu

• Popcorn
• Cheese stick with cherry tomatoes
• homemade savory muffins
• homemade pate sandwich
• Corn cooked in a pan with butter
• Mozzarella sticks
• Guacamole and corn nachos
• Sandwich with cold cuts or jam
• roasted mini esfiha
• Beetroot or carrot bread with homemade tuna pate
• Yogurt with fruit jars and muesli on the side
• homemade cereal bar
• Homemade pie
• hard-boiled quail egg
• Carrot and cucumber sticks with yoghurt mold
• roasted mini kibe
• Focaccia sandwich with cold cuts
• Baked pastry
• Stuffed Cheese Bread
• Fruit on the spit
• homemade strawberry cream
• Sandwich on the plate

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Source: Terra

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